Not only does she get the best and most upbeat songs to sing, but her voice is genuinely a delight to listen to. Though as a cheating honourable mention, I would recommend any song that Annabel Scholey sings. It’s sang by Katy Brand and Leona Lewis (starring in her acting debut as one of Raphael’s best friends) during Maddie’s hen night party. The best song by far is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, made famous by Cindi Lauper. The characters sing songs by Madonna, Duran Duran, Wham! and a plethora of other classic songs. There’s even a scene in one of the trailers of the characters donned in the iconic outfits of 80’s figures. The eponymous song, Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves, sets the aesthetic for the movie’s soundtrack a feel-good experience that you have to sing along to. Walking on Sunshine has the discography of an 80’s greatest hits album.
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Of course, the biggest selling point of the movie was not the plot or casting, but the music. Their history doesn’t matter, and it shouldn’t be a joke. It’s played off as a flirty and clever sing-along, but the behaviour is inappropriate and creepy. He even goes as far as to wait until he knows she’ll be alone and drunk (i.e her hen night) and he breaks in to her bedroom. He follows Maddie to Italy, to her room, all across the town and never takes no for an answer. On a related note, Doug’s behaviour is simply stalking. Taylor berates Maddie for agreeing to marry Raphael after only five weeks, never realising the irony that she is willing to destroy her relationship with her sister by lying and fleeing the country on Maddie’s wedding day over a summer romance from three years ago. You can dress it up with whatever peppy musical number you want, but Maddie is betrayed in the end. And naturally she is belittled by her friends and family for it, and ultimately she ends up lied to and betrayed by the two people who supposedly love her most. It’s that life and passion that attracts both Raphael and Doug.
There’s even a scene where she tries to discuss the exams she’s worked three years to complete, but all anyone is interested in is her love life. She is punished for not thinking about romance and love. Her only reason for leaving Raphael three years ago was that she was starting university. Taylor is punished for putting her career and education first, and striking out on her own. What really annoyed me about this movie is that both women are punished for contradicting reasons. Both sisters and their problems with their exes. These are the two plots that run alongside each. Even the location is similar a quiet beach in a Mediterranean country that’s beautiful but seemingly unmarred by the tourist trade. Walking on Sunshine follows Taylor, the serious one who doesn’t need love but who concedes that her true love is the exception to this rule Maddie, the overly amorous one who has an unrelenting lover Lil (Katy Brand)-the writer who begins the movie uninterested in settling down but ultimately ends up together with a similar counterpart. Unfortunately, it lacks the charm and borders or plagiarism in parts.Įxample: Mama Mia follows Donna-the serious one who doesn’t need love but concedes that her true love is the exception to this rule Tanya-the overly amorous one who has an unrelenting lover Rosie-the writer who begins the movie uninterested in settling down but ultimately ends up together with a similar counterpart. So it is to be expected that the movie share elements with its predecessors. The movie boasts that it is Pitch Perfect meets Mama Mia. Doug won’t take no for an answer, and is determined to win Maddie back. Meanwhile, Maddie deals with the dreadful Doug, an ex-boyfriend her friends are convinced is no good. She convinces Raph and his friends to join in on her lies, and hijinks ensue. The movie follows Taylor as she tries to fight her attraction to the gorgeous Raphael (Guilio Berruti), all the while hiding her history with him from her sister. But the gorgeous Italian fiancé is none other than Raphael, the man who Taylor left three years ago to return to England to her studies. It stars Hannah Arterton ( Atlantis, Hide and Seek) as Taylor, a serious and reserved university graduate who is summoned to Italy by her sister Maddie (Annabel Scholey) to celebrate her engagement. Walking on Sunshine was released in UK cinemas on 27th June 2014. Instead, it’s a disappointment with very few good points to make up for the taste of regret it leaves.Īs Popsi is to Pepsi, Walking on Sunshine is to Mama Mia. But still, you buy it because you want the thing you love, but you want it to be different and new. You know it’s a poor attempt to trick you in to thinking it’s something else. Walking on Sunshine is the movie equivalent to Popsi. Starring: Hannah Arterton, Annabel Scholey, Guilio Berruti
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